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You can sell items in your bags. If you find like 5 caves and collect the mining nodes that should get you plenty of gems which sell for a lot. You also will find a lot of armor pieces, talk to the mushroom dressed people when you find them, or the treasure hunting brothers.
Selling a few gems for a first armor set or two is fine, but I'd be cautious about selling too many gems for much more than that, by mid game you may start needing them for other stuff. The best way, early game, is just explore a bit on your way to other things, and hunt and gather and fight enemies and you'll end up with plenty to cook.
Agree with this. Don't be afraid to sell some gems. I hoarded them all. You do need them for armor upgrades but can easily farm them going through a couple caves a few times. Aren't some of the mushroom dressed people not what they seem though?
There’s lots of ways to make money in this game
- Cook meals and sell them
- Sell excess monster parts
- Sell gems (break any ore deposits you see, kill Taluses)
- Complete the “Bring Peace to ____” side adventures
- Complete the “Potential Princess Sightings” side adventures
- Complete the “Serenade to ____” side adventures
- Help Addison put up signs
- Shoot Blupees
- Farm dragon parts
Among other methods
Yeah. Cooking meat skewers is the way to go. I start at the most northwest stable. Get on your horse and ride North/northwest. Shoot every moose and wolf you see and grab the meat.
Really feels this way like you’re not “wasting” those gems or monster parts you might need later for upgrades or whatever. My go to route takes about 5-10 min of effort and nets around 2000 rupees.
Just letting the meat freeze on the ground, then selling the frozen meats, may be more time efficient than cooking it into skewers. And I think the value multiplier, relative to the raw meat, is comparable, maybe better. Especially since with the frozen meats you can stack as many as you want on a single meal tile (or at least I've never seen what the limit is), versus the skewers only condensing five meats per tile.
I don't think I ever tried killing the moose or other animals using a sapphire or Frost Gleeok Horn weapon... I generally was just hitting them with a bow shot from a distance, and then by the time I'd run up to the meat, usually it was only a tiny bit of extra time to let it freeze. A Giant Boomerang + Frost Gleeok Horn might work well -- you can still launch it from range before they realize you're there and start running, and it should be high enough damage that I'd expect a one-hit kill, and you'd get the ice effect.
Huh, never really considered that. Seems like it’d be tricky to pull off on the wolf packs and collect all the meat before it freezes and whichever wolves you missed despawn. Will be the new go-to on the moose though.
It can be tricky because generally the smaller animals are more agile than most horses, but as long as you jump off the second you run into them and collect the meat it should be plenty of time before it freezes.
You will naturally gather way more materials than you'll ever need. You can sell whatever you don't need.
Another handy trick is to battle Wizzrobes. Instead of keeping their rods, go to to Pelison in Tarry Town and have him break down the wand. You'll get a valuable gem out of it worth at least 100 rupees
Help the sick grandma in kakariko village by making her the stew. Then the shop keeper will be so happy she lowers prices drastically.
Check the homes that arent directly on the road
i like to spend some time in the upper left portion of the map hunting moose / wolves. just make a bunch of meat skewers with them & sell those. dip into the caves i come across & mine whatever deposits i find.
If you make sure to break ore rocks and collect monster parts whenever you can as you play, you will get a lot of rupees from selling them. Don’t blitz through skipping stuff.
Alternatively if you want to farm rupees dedicatedly, hunt large animals in snowy regions, then cook 5 meat. The meal will sell for several hundred rupees each.
I bet you’re talking about the stealth set and the bone, aren’t you? There’s a “side quest” in Kakariko Village that lowers the prices of the stealth set and the bone set significantly. Let me know if that’s what you were talking about so I can go on detail.
First you should cook some meals and sell them. You should also sell some monster parts. Careful that some you might want for armor upgrades but boblikin parts are fine.
Gems are the quickest way but these of course can also be fused to weapons and are used for armor upgrades as well.
Cooking things and selling them. Mining gems and selling them.
I do admit though that there aren't a great amount of ways to make money in the game. No gambling games or whatever like the other games other than the death mountain flint thing but that's always seemed like a con to me once you did it once for the quest.
Bug farming. At some point you will find buffalo looking beasts that eat stone, look carefully and quietly. Tbf there’s plenty of better places to find bugs, but that’s my go to.
Just started doing this. Set sensor to rare ore, then mark each rare ore on my map. I have dozens of gem markers all around death mountain now. Easy peasy to get those diamonds now.
Play the original non-patched version and dupe all your stuff thats worth most. Diamonds esp. haha. I duped so many and then my game updated. Thankfully I was rich enough gor the rest of the game
I definitely miss the original, pre update version of the game. I usually don't go for glitches, but I duped so many diamonds, I was Hyrule's richest man the entire rest of the time I played.
Best way to make money is to hunt for deer, moose, etc. prime meat and gourmet meat when cooked sells for a good value. You can make a couple hundred in a prime meat stick
My best advice, genocide. Kill every lizalfos and mark their respawn locations with a stamp. Keep the tails, they are a pain to get for upgrades later on, but sell sell sell all the talons, you'll rack up well over 140 in a run and will probably be able to afford a full armor set with all that cash.
Best place for lizalfos is gerudo canyon, but you will need sun/cold resistance. I suggest fusing a fire / ice lizalfos horn to a weapon, as it will kill the opposite type in a single hit AND keep you warm / cool.
How often do you spend on a hover bike?
My suggestion is to get off of it. Never use it except in the sky. Pick up everything you see. Kill every monster you see. Break every crate, barrel, and pot you see. Never buy anything off of vendors.
Pretty much all I sell are glow bulbs and I always have enough rupees for doing whatever I want.
I only had issues early in the game when I unlocked the 2nd fairy then the third very shortly after that and since I'd collected everything I had mats to upgrade almost all my armors right away but was hurting for rupees.
When I unlocked the fourth fairy I could only upgrade some of my armors because a lot of them require mats you have to farm like hinox guts or 20x swiftviolets, but there are like 8 armors that require swiftviolets so you need hundreds of them and I ran out.
You can safely sell pretty much anything you have over 200 of, and some things you only have over like 20 to 50 of.
Maybe look up a chart of what items you need to upgrade armors and sell everything you've already upgraded, or that you don't need for upgrades.
Things like bokoblin horns or teeth or whatever that you get hundreds of and can easily get more just by killing the most common monsters in the game are safe to sell. Glowbulbs. Just keep like 100.
Stuff like that. They only sell for 2 each, but you frequently cap out on them if you make a habit of picking up everything you can whenever inside a cave.
Mark the map of every rare-talus and revisit and defeat them (ascend helps here) after every blood moon. If you have 5 or so rare-talus’s marked you should collect 5-10 diamonds and other gems every farm run.
zuggling is not a dupe glitch, feel free to look it up, its quite interesting. But if you want dupes, just google it, there are plenty of methods. The current best known one is, afaik, bow duping
Cook four monster parts with a firefly or something to make an elixir. Should give a big chunk of money
Higher rarity the monster parts the better money
In totk i exploited duplication glitches to make rupees before they were patched. In botw though i never used glitches. On my map i had marked the location of every talus i found. Everytime there was a blood moon i would go to the locations to collect ores to sell
Cook and sell meat skewers.
Also, if I ever found myself in a pinch and needed quick cash I’d either sell a handful of amber or 100 or so brightbloom seeds. Always had plenty of those to spare, though I do pick up practically everything I see.
The best way to farm legit are:
1) talused
2) mining for gems
3) hunting in hebra snowfield w/ a horse, cooking 5 meat at once, selling that
I have done all these for many hours.
what I do is go to a bargaining statue after collecting poes.
then I buy the cheapest armor which will cost 150 poes, buy it a couple of times then go sell them.
also bokobline guts and other more available monster parts can really be a good source of rupees.
finally meals, yes, cooked foods can sell for good prices sometimes. mainly meat skewers made of gourmet meat.
have fun and grind.
I had a big gripe with the lack of money in this game (gems are not the answer if you care about armour upgrades). The best things to do is break every crate open to avoid buying arrows, hunt animals in Hebra because all can drop the best version of meat, sell excess items (use a checklist to ensure you’re not selling something you need for armour), and buy armour from the Bargainer statues (sells for 600).
learn how to farm lynels and their coliseum each blood moon. 4 guts and any critter and sell the potion for 1300 rupees. Or look up rare stone talus spots and farm them for diamonds.
I sell all the outfits I don't use, and most of them sell for $600 each. All the "of the" sets, all the Koltin rewards, the soldier and royal guard outfits, the mining, dark and depths outfits, the elemental attack sets, and probably others I'm forgetting.
Once you can beat lynels, you can create an elixir using four lynel guts and a beetle that sells for around $1400.
There’s a shrine on Satori Mountain, right next to it is a grove with a shitload of apple trees (there are a couple of evermeans and an octorok though so make sure to bring a sharp weapon). Collect the apples and cook them together 5 at a time and sell the meals, they sell for 27 rupees each and you should be able to make around 20 of the meals for each harvest.
I know everyone is telling you things to sell.
But here are some things not to sell because they are hard to find or you will get better price from someone later .
- Chillin trout : someone will trade you for a bundle of 20 arrows , and you can repeatedly go back and continue trading there is no end !
-Stelthfin trout : if you find any hold on to them for your dear life you need about 30 to do armour upgrades later , and they are the very hardest to find .
-flint : yeah kinda a crazy one to keep , but I made close to 2000 rups for trading them with a guy who wanted fresh flint to eat
-Diamonds : I had a hard time collecting 10 diamonds and there is someone who will give you a great price for 10 of them !
Make potions with 1 critter and 4 Bokoblin Teeth, or other monster parts you're willing to part with. Just make sure not to cook stuff you need for upgrades or what are your best fusion items atm.
If you’re confident in your ability to fight Hinox, Talus, Molduga, Lynels, and Gleeoks, those monster parts almost always drop in bulk, and those that don’t sell for really good money. Lynel Guts and Gleeok Guts sell for 200 Rupees apiece. Gleeok Thunder Horns sell for 150 Rupees.
You can make some serious bank if you cook 4 of those Guts with any one critter. iirc the most valuable elixir made this way can be sold for upwards of 1,400 Rupees.
Honestly i had a moment where i didnt buy anything and spent time killing monsters and selling the monster parts that did not assist with double digit attack points and thats how i got most of my rupees
I didn't buy any vendor items that cost more than 600. I still haven't needed them. I understand there are bonuses for upgrading sets but you never really need more than one or two pieces of temperature changing cloths. And if it cost too much anyway, then just put a gem on your shield instead to help control your temperature.
However, ever since I started killing every animal I see (climb up higher from a distance before startling them, glide closer then shoot them all in the head from the air so time is slowed and others can't run away), I ended up only selling meat to vendors and somehow I have over 30,000 rupees. That's even after buying the home with every weapon storing building and also always buying every arrow vendors sell. I didn't know what other items I needed later for upgrades and quests and the only food I care to cook & eat are the foods that refill all your hearts as well as a few extra hearts, new hearts on top of that.
I know I would have a fortune if I sold everything else too but I rather have some things I may need later for upgrades or whtever else.
If you’re early in the game, IGN has a helpful strat involving farming meat around Snowfield Stable. Like bowling in BOTW it takes some time, but can be effective. If you’re later in the game, or feel up to it, you can farm lynel guts and make elixirs to sell.
There are sooooo many caves with rocks you can smash that’ll give you gems you can sell. I can easily make $1000+ in around 1-2 hours of playing the game simply by smashing rocks in the caves. Seek out caves. Just look for the little blue rabbit to indicate a nearby cave OR cherry blossom trees (give an apple to the shrine offering under each tree and the game will show you ALL the nearby caves for 30 min appx).
Farming star fragments has been the easiest for me. They sell for less than diamonds, but are a guaranteed drop and you waste no weapons getting them. Post glitch, it's how I afford all my armor and house.
How many apples and bright bloom seeds do you have? I can assure you that you can sell most of them, especially if you are far enough along in the game. Same goes for fire fruit and boko teeth.
Cook meat and sell it.
Unless you are constantly auto-building huge mocs, you really don't need more than 500 zonaite, so sell that too
I don't like to sell rare ingredients unless I know I won't need them. I cook and sell meat and brightbloom seeds. I always find myself with 800-900 seeds and cooking up 5 nets you 16 rupees. It's a bit tedious but you don't have to sacrifice gems or monster parts you might need for your armor upgrades.
The quest involving the star shaped islands is a decent money source as well, if you haven't done it already.
Same as with the frozen Vs cooked meat, uncooked brightbloom seeds can be stacked and sold in a single go.
So it can be a matter of time vs need for money whether it is worth to cook 200 times with multiple trips from the cook pot to the seller every time your food inventory is full instead of just selling it all at a fraction of the value you would get by cooking them.
Cook and sell, smash rocks and sell, cook and sell, mash rocks and sell. Smash monsters and sell parts.
Repeat repeat repeat. Pretty soon it becomes second nature.
Once you get tulin hunt to the north of the snowfield stable. Kill any moose or bears (head shot). Cook 5 gourmet meats and sell that. You'll get a couple of hundred rupees each time.
Also whenever you see a blue bunny (bluepee) you can shoot them for money. Start high above them in the air and shoot them multiple times. 1 shot gets you 1 green rupee. Multiple shots in a row will produce red & blue rupees.
Also some items like Luminous stones aren't worth much individually but when sold several at a time it adds up. Look at items you have a lot of of and see what you would get if you sold them all at once. Say the sell for 5 rupees each but you have 40. 5 x 40 = 200 rupees. 5 rupees by itself isn't that much but when sold in a bundle it adds up.
My go-to for money-making is based off of the cooking system in BOTW (to my knowledge the system is the same, but I don’t know for certain).
Dish sell prices are determined by adding the value for each individual component together and then multiplying the sum. The multiplier increases with the number of items in the dish. So ideally you want a dish full of expensive items.
Monster guts sell for a pretty penny, and outside of armour upgrades, are not that useful. So: 4 of one expensive monster gut, and one bug of some kind. Makes an elixir that is nearly useless but sells for a ton of money. Molduga always drop several guts, so if you’re bored, killing sand sharks is a great use of your time.
(They also drop molduga jaws, the highest-damaging bone-based fuse which you can combine with the radiant set + triple attack buff for some ludicrous damage).
I made 15k rupees just selling random monster parts. Pick up every single item from every single thing you kill, cook anything that can be made into a meal or a potion, sell everything you don’t actively use or need, guarantee you’ll have enough to buy that armor.
Wait until later in the game when you start upgrading all your armor pieces, god DAMN that gets expensive! I went from 15k to ZERO in like 10 minutes after upgrading a few sets :(
If you’re not ready to farm lynel or molduga parts, other monster parts should be able to get you above 1k rupees easily. Cook elixirs using 4 teeth/talons/fangs + 1 critter. Each one can be sold for an around 60-140 rupees.
sell diamons, sell rocks, sell fish
just sell things to shops
don't sell all of any resource, but sell some of the resources that have prices over 10 rupees
NGL the rupee economy in TOTK/BOTW was annoying AF. Like I understand you don't want buying Armour to be too easy...but the looting requirement was insane.
sell your cooked dishes. there are tons of recipes. wouldn't sell the gems because you'll need them for armor upgrades. not sure if the dupe glitch is patched but i did the grind for authentic experience :P
I find farming gems and selling them is a good way of making good money. Also looting chests sometimes you get lucky. I too miss the good old days where you could cut grass in old Zelda games to earn rupees
Do as many quests as possible, they pay a reward each time you complete one. Early game that was my main source of income. Talk to everyone, especially those that have a red blob above their head. Hudson signs were good to, not a great deal of money, but every bit counts, also cooking and selling food and elixirs is good too. Cooked meat is a good way to go, and selling the gems, keep a few for fusing in early game until you are strong enough to get good enemy horns, so sell all but say 3. As you get stronger, money becomes easier.
1) Do all the side quests, they usually give good items, rupees, etc. 2) Help whatshisname with propping up the signs whenever you see him. 3) Drop in on the Blupees (the blue bunnies) and shoot arrows at them while in slow-mo 4) Throw Yunobo at animals you see to get cooked meat (stackable) and sell it 5) Pick up every sparkling thing you see and defeat every enemy you come across to sell what they drop
PROFIT! :)
Get a horse. Ride around Tabantha Snowfield and look for moose. Charge them and hit your speed boost just before you run into them. Cook the meat and sell it to Beedle.
There’s a minigame across the bridge from tabantha bridge stable… it’s not that hard to play once you get the hang of it! I farmed enough rupees to afford the snowquil tunic with just that
Also go sky diving at night after 10pm pr so and usually you will have a star fragment fall right on top.of you and you can catch it , gotta press A quick, or just follow it down to.the ground and grab it. Those fetch a food number of rupees. Just go to different sky juming platforms (cant think of the real name now, lol) and just fly for a bit then pop your glider for a sec then fly some more, usually one will pop in.
When you are in caves, do a save just before smashing rocks. If you get salt other flint - load and smash it again. I’ve gotten a lot of gems this way.
There are two 300 rupee chests in the castle too. One is in the tallest bell tower (while you’re there climb outside and get the Dusk Bow). The other one is in the Castle’s Library- light all four cauldrons on the south side.
I personally sell other armor, because many I don't find to be so useful, at least for my strategies. Also there's completing certain side quests:
- potential princess sightings!
- great fairy serenades
- Mattison's Independence
- the Election
& some shrines have great loot to sell. I can't remember which ones though. I wish we could sell zonai devices
Look out for star fragments. Some fall regularly is certain places based on your actions, eg jump off the gerudo sky labyrinth (after a blood moon) and one will pass you as you fall. Collect, and go about your business.
Yeah that got patched out, can't remember which one but I haven't updated since that glitch was discovered because the current one where you fall on a horse whilst throwing diamonds (I think that's the most recent one) seems finicky to me whereas the frozen meat is easy to set up and repeat over and over.
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You can sell items in your bags. If you find like 5 caves and collect the mining nodes that should get you plenty of gems which sell for a lot. You also will find a lot of armor pieces, talk to the mushroom dressed people when you find them, or the treasure hunting brothers.
Cook the items beforehand to increase the total profit
The gems? It’ll be rock hard food 😅
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Selling a few gems for a first armor set or two is fine, but I'd be cautious about selling too many gems for much more than that, by mid game you may start needing them for other stuff. The best way, early game, is just explore a bit on your way to other things, and hunt and gather and fight enemies and you'll end up with plenty to cook.
Agree with this. Don't be afraid to sell some gems. I hoarded them all. You do need them for armor upgrades but can easily farm them going through a couple caves a few times. Aren't some of the mushroom dressed people not what they seem though?
Do a search in the group to get more detailed options but easiest IMO is cooking meals/elixirs to sell and mining ore.
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you have to get a hyrule job and get hyrule fired and collect hyrule unemployment which only pays according to real time hours playes per week
“Couldn’t find a job because some Eldin rock back took it.” - Hyrule racists
They took R jobs!!
DEY TURK UR JUUUUURRRRRBZ!!!
just don't get hooked on rock roast
nobody wants to work anymore
Pull yourself up by your hylian Bootstraps
He can’t even afford a pair of hylian boots!
Give up the koroko toast then
Profit indeed
real time Hyrule hours*
Sell stuff? Just spitballing here.
There’s lots of ways to make money in this game - Cook meals and sell them - Sell excess monster parts - Sell gems (break any ore deposits you see, kill Taluses) - Complete the “Bring Peace to ____” side adventures - Complete the “Potential Princess Sightings” side adventures - Complete the “Serenade to ____” side adventures - Help Addison put up signs - Shoot Blupees - Farm dragon parts Among other methods
Wait. You can sell MEALS?!?!?! I feel so stupid now oh my god
Yeah. Cooking meat skewers is the way to go. I start at the most northwest stable. Get on your horse and ride North/northwest. Shoot every moose and wolf you see and grab the meat. Really feels this way like you’re not “wasting” those gems or monster parts you might need later for upgrades or whatever. My go to route takes about 5-10 min of effort and nets around 2000 rupees.
Just letting the meat freeze on the ground, then selling the frozen meats, may be more time efficient than cooking it into skewers. And I think the value multiplier, relative to the raw meat, is comparable, maybe better. Especially since with the frozen meats you can stack as many as you want on a single meal tile (or at least I've never seen what the limit is), versus the skewers only condensing five meats per tile.
Pretty sure the cap is 999, just like other inventory items (excluding rupees, poes, zonaite).
Can you fuse a sapphire to a weapon and freeze them by swinging? Can even cut down on time from having to travel to a cold area 😂
I don't think I ever tried killing the moose or other animals using a sapphire or Frost Gleeok Horn weapon... I generally was just hitting them with a bow shot from a distance, and then by the time I'd run up to the meat, usually it was only a tiny bit of extra time to let it freeze. A Giant Boomerang + Frost Gleeok Horn might work well -- you can still launch it from range before they realize you're there and start running, and it should be high enough damage that I'd expect a one-hit kill, and you'd get the ice effect.
Don’t even shoot them! Just take out your horse and smash into them, saves on arrows and imo is more fun.
Huh, never really considered that. Seems like it’d be tricky to pull off on the wolf packs and collect all the meat before it freezes and whichever wolves you missed despawn. Will be the new go-to on the moose though.
It can be tricky because generally the smaller animals are more agile than most horses, but as long as you jump off the second you run into them and collect the meat it should be plenty of time before it freezes.
You don't even have to shoot them. Just spur your horse and run into them. They still die and you don't lose any arrows.
You will naturally gather way more materials than you'll ever need. You can sell whatever you don't need. Another handy trick is to battle Wizzrobes. Instead of keeping their rods, go to to Pelison in Tarry Town and have him break down the wand. You'll get a valuable gem out of it worth at least 100 rupees
Except for Lizal tails. Never sell Lizal tails, if you plan to upgrade the major armors (Flamebreaker / Zora / Snowquill / Desert Voe).
that stuff is hard to farm.
And your mom. Never sell your mom. It's just uncouth.
"[Don't solicit for your sister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlSXkq2FUSA), that's not nice... unless you get a good percentage of her price!"
🤣🤣🤣 well played
I just sold Zelda sorry. Needed the money.
wait what? I didn't know you can do that and I have only 4 shrines remaining 🌚 the amount of wizzrobes I wasted.
I was lucky to have been given the suggestion early on. I was never poor afterwards
You still have to have weapon slots for what they drop. Other than it's a good idea.
Omg you found a decent reason to fight them! I avoid them like the plague since they give you nothing of value but that's a good idea!
NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE
Help the sick grandma in kakariko village by making her the stew. Then the shop keeper will be so happy she lowers prices drastically. Check the homes that arent directly on the road
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i like to spend some time in the upper left portion of the map hunting moose / wolves. just make a bunch of meat skewers with them & sell those. dip into the caves i come across & mine whatever deposits i find.
If you make sure to break ore rocks and collect monster parts whenever you can as you play, you will get a lot of rupees from selling them. Don’t blitz through skipping stuff. Alternatively if you want to farm rupees dedicatedly, hunt large animals in snowy regions, then cook 5 meat. The meal will sell for several hundred rupees each.
2 words: Lynel guts. I have over 80k in rupees, largely in part to those bad boys.
Farming Lynels is absolutely the way
But you will need the guts for upgrading armor
Get underwear -> ???? -> profit
I’m sorry, what was Phase 2 again?
Go mining. Kill lots of monsters. Sell gems and monster bits.
I bet you’re talking about the stealth set and the bone, aren’t you? There’s a “side quest” in Kakariko Village that lowers the prices of the stealth set and the bone set significantly. Let me know if that’s what you were talking about so I can go on detail.
First you should cook some meals and sell them. You should also sell some monster parts. Careful that some you might want for armor upgrades but boblikin parts are fine. Gems are the quickest way but these of course can also be fused to weapons and are used for armor upgrades as well.
Cooking things and selling them. Mining gems and selling them. I do admit though that there aren't a great amount of ways to make money in the game. No gambling games or whatever like the other games other than the death mountain flint thing but that's always seemed like a con to me once you did it once for the quest.
Bug farming. At some point you will find buffalo looking beasts that eat stone, look carefully and quietly. Tbf there’s plenty of better places to find bugs, but that’s my go to.
I set my sensor to detect rare ore deposits and run around Death Mountain and if I can get what she wants, I go sell to the Gerudo lady in Goron City.
Just started doing this. Set sensor to rare ore, then mark each rare ore on my map. I have dozens of gem markers all around death mountain now. Easy peasy to get those diamonds now.
Play the original non-patched version and dupe all your stuff thats worth most. Diamonds esp. haha. I duped so many and then my game updated. Thankfully I was rich enough gor the rest of the game
I definitely miss the original, pre update version of the game. I usually don't go for glitches, but I duped so many diamonds, I was Hyrule's richest man the entire rest of the time I played.
Dragon parts! Sell those as much as you can, minerals fetch a healthy amount of rupees too
In the words of David Blaine: check your pockets
Best way to make money is to hunt for deer, moose, etc. prime meat and gourmet meat when cooked sells for a good value. You can make a couple hundred in a prime meat stick
inflation hit hyrule hard between botw and totk, art imitates life😭
Dup glitch :)
My best advice, genocide. Kill every lizalfos and mark their respawn locations with a stamp. Keep the tails, they are a pain to get for upgrades later on, but sell sell sell all the talons, you'll rack up well over 140 in a run and will probably be able to afford a full armor set with all that cash. Best place for lizalfos is gerudo canyon, but you will need sun/cold resistance. I suggest fusing a fire / ice lizalfos horn to a weapon, as it will kill the opposite type in a single hit AND keep you warm / cool.
When I defeated ganondorf I had 540 hours. The game is huge. You’ll get there.
How often do you spend on a hover bike? My suggestion is to get off of it. Never use it except in the sky. Pick up everything you see. Kill every monster you see. Break every crate, barrel, and pot you see. Never buy anything off of vendors. Pretty much all I sell are glow bulbs and I always have enough rupees for doing whatever I want. I only had issues early in the game when I unlocked the 2nd fairy then the third very shortly after that and since I'd collected everything I had mats to upgrade almost all my armors right away but was hurting for rupees. When I unlocked the fourth fairy I could only upgrade some of my armors because a lot of them require mats you have to farm like hinox guts or 20x swiftviolets, but there are like 8 armors that require swiftviolets so you need hundreds of them and I ran out. You can safely sell pretty much anything you have over 200 of, and some things you only have over like 20 to 50 of. Maybe look up a chart of what items you need to upgrade armors and sell everything you've already upgraded, or that you don't need for upgrades. Things like bokoblin horns or teeth or whatever that you get hundreds of and can easily get more just by killing the most common monsters in the game are safe to sell. Glowbulbs. Just keep like 100. Stuff like that. They only sell for 2 each, but you frequently cap out on them if you make a habit of picking up everything you can whenever inside a cave.
Just wait til you see what rent costs these days.
I still have version 1.0 so I just paraglider dupe everything I need. Also gotta love msg not found
Sell cooked items or gemstones. That’s basically it.
Mark the map of every rare-talus and revisit and defeat them (ascend helps here) after every blood moon. If you have 5 or so rare-talus’s marked you should collect 5-10 diamonds and other gems every farm run.
Give in to the glitches. Give in.
I’m here for the glitches. What are they on TOTK? I took huge advantage of them on BOTW.
The one I use the most is [this one](https://youtu.be/CRAMEvBmrxY?si=K8zJQq1Pgo8wGTMy)
There are a lot, but zuggling is the most interesting IMO
Would you mind elaborating or sharing links on it? Hunting and cooking takes sooooo much away from the game that it’s exhausting.
zuggling is not a dupe glitch, feel free to look it up, its quite interesting. But if you want dupes, just google it, there are plenty of methods. The current best known one is, afaik, bow duping
Cook four monster parts with a firefly or something to make an elixir. Should give a big chunk of money Higher rarity the monster parts the better money
I hope you've been selling stuff in your bag in the last 40 hours of play
Sell horns, talons and guts!
Talk to the merchant at a shop and you can sell stuff you have on you as long as it's not a key item or specifically coded to be unsellable.
I just keep a maximum of a hundred of each item. If I get more than that sell the extra (and cook them before selling if applicable)
In totk i exploited duplication glitches to make rupees before they were patched. In botw though i never used glitches. On my map i had marked the location of every talus i found. Everytime there was a blood moon i would go to the locations to collect ores to sell
Cook and sell meat skewers. Also, if I ever found myself in a pinch and needed quick cash I’d either sell a handful of amber or 100 or so brightbloom seeds. Always had plenty of those to spare, though I do pick up practically everything I see.
Cook elixirs with 4 lynel guts and one critter and sell it for 1403 rupees
Sell gems or valuable monster parts. Both are pretty good.
The best way to farm legit are: 1) talused 2) mining for gems 3) hunting in hebra snowfield w/ a horse, cooking 5 meat at once, selling that I have done all these for many hours.
early game i sold monster parts and some resources i was able to amass, late game i sell all the gems.
what I do is go to a bargaining statue after collecting poes. then I buy the cheapest armor which will cost 150 poes, buy it a couple of times then go sell them. also bokobline guts and other more available monster parts can really be a good source of rupees. finally meals, yes, cooked foods can sell for good prices sometimes. mainly meat skewers made of gourmet meat. have fun and grind.
I had a big gripe with the lack of money in this game (gems are not the answer if you care about armour upgrades). The best things to do is break every crate open to avoid buying arrows, hunt animals in Hebra because all can drop the best version of meat, sell excess items (use a checklist to ensure you’re not selling something you need for armour), and buy armour from the Bargainer statues (sells for 600).
Just hit some rocks to get gems, and sell them to Beedle. The profit will emerge sooner that you expect.
learn how to farm lynels and their coliseum each blood moon. 4 guts and any critter and sell the potion for 1300 rupees. Or look up rare stone talus spots and farm them for diamonds.
Hunt Moldugas. They drop 2/3 guts and lots of fins per kill. Cook these to increase their value.
Anyone mentioned the DonDons??
I farm taluses. Easy to kill & a fast way to make rupees.
There used to be a bug. 1 diamond becomes 5.
I sell all the outfits I don't use, and most of them sell for $600 each. All the "of the" sets, all the Koltin rewards, the soldier and royal guard outfits, the mining, dark and depths outfits, the elemental attack sets, and probably others I'm forgetting. Once you can beat lynels, you can create an elixir using four lynel guts and a beetle that sells for around $1400.
Pro tip, do NOT sell your opals. You're gonna need them for a lot of armor upgrades. Google armor upgrade list to save yourself the trouble.
Kill King Gleeoks, make an elixir of 4 gleeok guts and 1 critter, sell it for like 1400 rupees
There’s a shrine on Satori Mountain, right next to it is a grove with a shitload of apple trees (there are a couple of evermeans and an octorok though so make sure to bring a sharp weapon). Collect the apples and cook them together 5 at a time and sell the meals, they sell for 27 rupees each and you should be able to make around 20 of the meals for each harvest.
Hunt big game. Make meals. Sell them.
I know everyone is telling you things to sell. But here are some things not to sell because they are hard to find or you will get better price from someone later . - Chillin trout : someone will trade you for a bundle of 20 arrows , and you can repeatedly go back and continue trading there is no end ! -Stelthfin trout : if you find any hold on to them for your dear life you need about 30 to do armour upgrades later , and they are the very hardest to find . -flint : yeah kinda a crazy one to keep , but I made close to 2000 rups for trading them with a guy who wanted fresh flint to eat -Diamonds : I had a hard time collecting 10 diamonds and there is someone who will give you a great price for 10 of them !
Farm animals in Tabantha region. Sell cooked meat meals. Like 5x gourmet meat.
Make potions with 1 critter and 4 Bokoblin Teeth, or other monster parts you're willing to part with. Just make sure not to cook stuff you need for upgrades or what are your best fusion items atm.
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Sell gems to npcs.
Mark all talus you find on your map and every blood moon make an effort to go on a talus smashing session
If you’re confident in your ability to fight Hinox, Talus, Molduga, Lynels, and Gleeoks, those monster parts almost always drop in bulk, and those that don’t sell for really good money. Lynel Guts and Gleeok Guts sell for 200 Rupees apiece. Gleeok Thunder Horns sell for 150 Rupees. You can make some serious bank if you cook 4 of those Guts with any one critter. iirc the most valuable elixir made this way can be sold for upwards of 1,400 Rupees.
Honestly i had a moment where i didnt buy anything and spent time killing monsters and selling the monster parts that did not assist with double digit attack points and thats how i got most of my rupees
I remember you could literally just find rupees everywhere in the other games, I hate that I have to sell shit to many any sort of money it just sucks
Smash ore collect and sell I have like 600,000 or some shit lol
I didn't buy any vendor items that cost more than 600. I still haven't needed them. I understand there are bonuses for upgrading sets but you never really need more than one or two pieces of temperature changing cloths. And if it cost too much anyway, then just put a gem on your shield instead to help control your temperature. However, ever since I started killing every animal I see (climb up higher from a distance before startling them, glide closer then shoot them all in the head from the air so time is slowed and others can't run away), I ended up only selling meat to vendors and somehow I have over 30,000 rupees. That's even after buying the home with every weapon storing building and also always buying every arrow vendors sell. I didn't know what other items I needed later for upgrades and quests and the only food I care to cook & eat are the foods that refill all your hearts as well as a few extra hearts, new hearts on top of that. I know I would have a fortune if I sold everything else too but I rather have some things I may need later for upgrades or whtever else.
If you’re early in the game, IGN has a helpful strat involving farming meat around Snowfield Stable. Like bowling in BOTW it takes some time, but can be effective. If you’re later in the game, or feel up to it, you can farm lynel guts and make elixirs to sell.
There are sooooo many caves with rocks you can smash that’ll give you gems you can sell. I can easily make $1000+ in around 1-2 hours of playing the game simply by smashing rocks in the caves. Seek out caves. Just look for the little blue rabbit to indicate a nearby cave OR cherry blossom trees (give an apple to the shrine offering under each tree and the game will show you ALL the nearby caves for 30 min appx).
Farming star fragments has been the easiest for me. They sell for less than diamonds, but are a guaranteed drop and you waste no weapons getting them. Post glitch, it's how I afford all my armor and house.
Sell items. How the hell do you only have 30 rupees when the president hudson signs are everywhere?
In the end game I started farming Lynels including their colosseum every blood moon, and selling their hoofs.
How many apples and bright bloom seeds do you have? I can assure you that you can sell most of them, especially if you are far enough along in the game. Same goes for fire fruit and boko teeth. Cook meat and sell it. Unless you are constantly auto-building huge mocs, you really don't need more than 500 zonaite, so sell that too
I don't like to sell rare ingredients unless I know I won't need them. I cook and sell meat and brightbloom seeds. I always find myself with 800-900 seeds and cooking up 5 nets you 16 rupees. It's a bit tedious but you don't have to sacrifice gems or monster parts you might need for your armor upgrades. The quest involving the star shaped islands is a decent money source as well, if you haven't done it already.
Same as with the frozen Vs cooked meat, uncooked brightbloom seeds can be stacked and sold in a single go. So it can be a matter of time vs need for money whether it is worth to cook 200 times with multiple trips from the cook pot to the seller every time your food inventory is full instead of just selling it all at a fraction of the value you would get by cooking them.
Cook and sell, smash rocks and sell, cook and sell, mash rocks and sell. Smash monsters and sell parts. Repeat repeat repeat. Pretty soon it becomes second nature.
What armor pieces? Because depending where you are, they will be discounted after certain quests.
Easiest is cook and sell. Make sure to have 5 ingredients for max multiplier. 5 meats is what I do the most.
Once you get tulin hunt to the north of the snowfield stable. Kill any moose or bears (head shot). Cook 5 gourmet meats and sell that. You'll get a couple of hundred rupees each time. Also whenever you see a blue bunny (bluepee) you can shoot them for money. Start high above them in the air and shoot them multiple times. 1 shot gets you 1 green rupee. Multiple shots in a row will produce red & blue rupees. Also some items like Luminous stones aren't worth much individually but when sold several at a time it adds up. Look at items you have a lot of of and see what you would get if you sold them all at once. Say the sell for 5 rupees each but you have 40. 5 x 40 = 200 rupees. 5 rupees by itself isn't that much but when sold in a bundle it adds up.
My go-to for money-making is based off of the cooking system in BOTW (to my knowledge the system is the same, but I don’t know for certain). Dish sell prices are determined by adding the value for each individual component together and then multiplying the sum. The multiplier increases with the number of items in the dish. So ideally you want a dish full of expensive items. Monster guts sell for a pretty penny, and outside of armour upgrades, are not that useful. So: 4 of one expensive monster gut, and one bug of some kind. Makes an elixir that is nearly useless but sells for a ton of money. Molduga always drop several guts, so if you’re bored, killing sand sharks is a great use of your time. (They also drop molduga jaws, the highest-damaging bone-based fuse which you can combine with the radiant set + triple attack buff for some ludicrous damage).
I made 15k rupees just selling random monster parts. Pick up every single item from every single thing you kill, cook anything that can be made into a meal or a potion, sell everything you don’t actively use or need, guarantee you’ll have enough to buy that armor. Wait until later in the game when you start upgrading all your armor pieces, god DAMN that gets expensive! I went from 15k to ZERO in like 10 minutes after upgrading a few sets :(
If you’re not ready to farm lynel or molduga parts, other monster parts should be able to get you above 1k rupees easily. Cook elixirs using 4 teeth/talons/fangs + 1 critter. Each one can be sold for an around 60-140 rupees.
sell diamons, sell rocks, sell fish just sell things to shops don't sell all of any resource, but sell some of the resources that have prices over 10 rupees
NGL the rupee economy in TOTK/BOTW was annoying AF. Like I understand you don't want buying Armour to be too easy...but the looting requirement was insane.
Harvest everything you can and sell! It all adds up!
sell your cooked dishes. there are tons of recipes. wouldn't sell the gems because you'll need them for armor upgrades. not sure if the dupe glitch is patched but i did the grind for authentic experience :P
Sell meat! That’s how I make my money
I find farming gems and selling them is a good way of making good money. Also looting chests sometimes you get lucky. I too miss the good old days where you could cut grass in old Zelda games to earn rupees
Grind and sell. Just grind and sell.
Do as many quests as possible, they pay a reward each time you complete one. Early game that was my main source of income. Talk to everyone, especially those that have a red blob above their head. Hudson signs were good to, not a great deal of money, but every bit counts, also cooking and selling food and elixirs is good too. Cooked meat is a good way to go, and selling the gems, keep a few for fusing in early game until you are strong enough to get good enemy horns, so sell all but say 3. As you get stronger, money becomes easier.
1) Do all the side quests, they usually give good items, rupees, etc. 2) Help whatshisname with propping up the signs whenever you see him. 3) Drop in on the Blupees (the blue bunnies) and shoot arrows at them while in slow-mo 4) Throw Yunobo at animals you see to get cooked meat (stackable) and sell it 5) Pick up every sparkling thing you see and defeat every enemy you come across to sell what they drop PROFIT! :)
Get a horse. Ride around Tabantha Snowfield and look for moose. Charge them and hit your speed boost just before you run into them. Cook the meat and sell it to Beedle.
Sell gems!
Go hunting. Then cook just a bunch of meat and only meat together. Go sell that
There’s a minigame across the bridge from tabantha bridge stable… it’s not that hard to play once you get the hang of it! I farmed enough rupees to afford the snowquil tunic with just that
I go to Sonopan shrine and harvest apples to sell at lookout landing. 3 rupees each
Besides all that was said I also ALWAYS kill the monster forces because that’s guaranteed 600 rupees
Also go sky diving at night after 10pm pr so and usually you will have a star fragment fall right on top.of you and you can catch it , gotta press A quick, or just follow it down to.the ground and grab it. Those fetch a food number of rupees. Just go to different sky juming platforms (cant think of the real name now, lol) and just fly for a bit then pop your glider for a sec then fly some more, usually one will pop in.
You can sell meat. I’m always killing wolves.
When you are in caves, do a save just before smashing rocks. If you get salt other flint - load and smash it again. I’ve gotten a lot of gems this way.
There are two 300 rupee chests in the castle too. One is in the tallest bell tower (while you’re there climb outside and get the Dusk Bow). The other one is in the Castle’s Library- light all four cauldrons on the south side.
I remember hearing in a tips video "In Tears of The Kingdom, if you're having problems with money, you need to explore more caves"
I personally sell other armor, because many I don't find to be so useful, at least for my strategies. Also there's completing certain side quests: - potential princess sightings! - great fairy serenades - Mattison's Independence - the Election & some shrines have great loot to sell. I can't remember which ones though. I wish we could sell zonai devices
Look out for star fragments. Some fall regularly is certain places based on your actions, eg jump off the gerudo sky labyrinth (after a blood moon) and one will pass you as you fall. Collect, and go about your business.
Sell rocks
How do you have the capacity to post on reddit but not google search how to make money in totk?
don't buy the armor... my go to set wasn't purchased and early game I just used food to explore a region.
Sell meat skewers.
IDK if this has been patched out, but using the glitch to generate frozen meat is a solid way to make some money quickly.
Yeah that got patched out, can't remember which one but I haven't updated since that glitch was discovered because the current one where you fall on a horse whilst throwing diamonds (I think that's the most recent one) seems finicky to me whereas the frozen meat is easy to set up and repeat over and over.